The Orientalist-Anglicist controversy was a controversy regarding the nature of education that the British-East India company was to impart to the local populations in its territory.
The Orientalists under Dr. H.H Wilson advocated for Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian as medium of education while the Angliicsts under Charles Trevelyan wanted the medium of education to be in English.
It was resolved in favour of the Anglicists by allocating limited government resources towards teaching Western literature and sciences in the English language.
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